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Welcome to Back & ForthLow End Mac is pleased to welcome Jonathan Ploudre as a
regular columnist. The first thing that Jonathan
Ploudre did when he got his own Mac IIsi in 1991 was to
make a custom icon for the computer and give it a name. Ever
since then he has been trying to make Macs as fast and
friendly as possible. Comments, opinions, and ideas about
this or other Back & Forth columns are gladly
accepted. Articles by Jonathan Ploudre- Optimizing Mac software,
7/20. Setting the right preferences can make your
software work more efficiently.
- Picking fast software,
7/13. All software is not created equal: some programs
let you work more efficiently.
- Three user accelerators,
7/6. Three tips to improve the Macintosh experience.
- Web browsing with Espy,
6/29. How to use Apple's Espy font as your default
typeface.
- Bottlenecks: What is your Mac's
slowest component?, 6/22. The slowest part of your
computer system could be -- you.
- Speed reconsidered, 6/15.
Perceived speed is what counts. Sometimes an old Mac can
be faster than a new one.
- Using the Espy font, 6/9.
"Choosing a favorite font is sort of like choosing a
favorite flavor of ice cream...."
- Macintosh System Fonts,
6/1. A look at the fonts Apple has included with the OS
over the years.
- A history of font
technologies, My Turn, 5/25. All about bit-mapped,
Postscript, TrueType fonts, and anti-aliasing.
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